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Saturday, May 10, 2008

Beary Sweet

I've completed a new painting this weekend. (Sorry, but I'm only going to show a cropped shot of it. I'm getting a lot of visitors from Thailand and China lately, visiting specific illustrated posts. It's made me paranoid about posting new work given the reputation of copyright-violation those countries have. ) It's a much more relaxed style with mixed media. I started with a cardboard sheet left over from a diaper box, covered it in pages from an art magazine, then painted the colors and shapes I wanted to use as background. On top of that I pencil-sketched, then acrylic-washed the image of a bear climbing a tree to get to a bee's nest. Finally I outlined it with brush and ink. Besides the act of constructing the "canvas" itself, this whole process was extremely quick.

It was a lot of fun to do...and I'm planning on another one. This time with a baby bear. I've had bears on the brain for the last year or so, and I'm glad I'm finally able to do something with them!

2 comments:

Wow! I am really impressed with all that you went through to prepare the canvas for this illustration. How did you ever come up with all that... I usually grab a sheet of 140lb watercolor paper or bristol. =)Your technique certainly works, it looks like a charming and well executed piece of art. Thanks for sharing.PS Scary thought about the overseas visitors... is that really a big concern?